Quotes About Inevitability

This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling.

Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.

because what goes up must come down

I don't think there's enough time to repair some things. Some things just become part of a person, like their skin color. It doesn't have to define them, but it's always with them.

Why should one bother to criticize what is inevitable or challenge what is omnipotent?

He himself felt frightened and alarmed when he reflected on the inevitability of old age, sickness and death. He became silent and withdrawn.

The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end. Sometimes magic doesn't listen after all.

No man can avoid doing the things he was made to do when the time comes for him to do them."

No man can avoid to do what he was made to do when the time comes for him to do it.

Death is never as distant as we believe it to be, and it will never come willingly.

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.

que no está en su mano evitar o cumplir

How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

Why does there have to be promise before destruction?

It was all, in short, as natural and unnatural, as horrible, intolerable and unescapable, as if she had become young again, with all her desolate and unavoidable life stretching away ahead of her to—this.

I could certainly subscribe to the notion that life ends in old age, sickness, and death—but later, later.

We're all carrying our coffins with us every day." Or "We are all constantly cheating death.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough.

Car l'homme ne vit que durant un clignement de paupières et ensuite c'est la pourriture à jamais, et chaque jour tu fais un pas de plus vers le trou en terre où tu moisiras en grande stupidité et silence en la seule compagnie de vers blancs et gras comme ceux de la farine et du fromage, et ils s'introduiront dans tous tes orifices pour s'y nourrir.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

You don't mean what you say. You may think you do, but you don't. What has been right and natural, since the days of Eve, will keep on being right and natural to the end of the chapter. What has gone on for six thousand years is not likely to stop short and change itself, in a single quarter century. Nothing in nature has ever done that.

Podem rezar latim sobre o meu caixão, se quiserem. Se quiserem, podem dançar e cantar à roda dele. Não tenho preferências para quando já não puder ter preferências. O que for, quando for, é que será o que é.